Robert Duvall
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-Papa, je veux aller à la taverne!
Connaissez-vous beaucoup d'enfants de six ou sept ans qui interpellent leur père tous les dimanches de cette façon? Toute mon enfance, j'ai été fasciné par ce lieu mystérieux. Plus tard, au début de ma vie adulte, j'ai connu les différents acteurs qui fréquentaient ces lieux: les travailleurs, les récipiendaires d'aide sociale, les ivrognes, les artisans, les artistes et les nombreux immigrants. Suivez-moi...
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Une histoire politique qui se lit d'un trait,
et qui pourrait bien être vraie.
Voilà six ans que Denis Moreau occupe la fonction de maire de Granby. On peut dire que sous son règne, la dette et les taxes ont baissé de façon substantielle, ce qui le rend très populaire au sein de la population et du conseil municipal, qu'il contrle complètement. Il prétend être le défenseur du petit contribuable, mais est-ce vraiment le cas?
Maxime Lalonde,...
3) Wild Horses
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A detective opens up a fifteen-year-old missing person's case, and begins to suspect that the missing boy was murdered, and that a local rancher was involved.
10) Rambling Rose
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Rose, an alluring young woman, is hired by a Southern family to care for their children, and changes their lives forever. She is an innocent who relates to everyone she meets in the only way she knows how-- with sexuality she cannot restrain. The mother of the family takes Rose under her wing, offering love and protection, while the teenaged son finds Rose both his fantasy and a profound mystery.
11) Wild horses
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A female Texas Ranger reopens a cold case in which she suspects a missing boy was murdered and a local rancher was involved.
12) Lady ice
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An insurance investigator becomes involved with a women whom he suspects is a jewel thief.
13) Secondhand lions
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Walter has had a hard life for a 13-year old. His no good floozy of a mother tends to get together with many equally despicable men. Before going on yet another husband-hunting trip, she drops Walter off at the house of his great-uncles Hub and Garth. In their youth, they would disappear for quite a while. The two are rumored to have acquired a great fortune, which Walter's mother hopes to get her hands on if he can ingratiate himself enough to the...
14) The natural
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Roy Hobbs determines to fulfill his boyhood dream of being a baseball superstar; he is making progress when a mysterious woman shatters his dream and later, overcoming physical pain, he has a chance to lead his team to the pennant.
15) THX 1138
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"A man whose mind and body are controlled by the government ... makes a harrowing attempt to escape from a world where thoughts are controlled, freedom is an impossibility and love is the ultimate crime"--Container.
16) Crazy heart
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The powerful story of a country music star's rocky road to redemption. Bad Blake is a boozy, broken-down singer who reaches for salvation with the help of Jean, a journalist who discovers the real man behind the music. But will Bad's hard-livin' ways and crazy heart cost him his last chance at a comeback?
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In a future America ruled by extreme Christian Fundamentalists, women have been stripped of their independence and are divided into classes; wives, aunts (spinster domestic workers) and handmaidens - the few women who have not been rendered sterile by pollution, who are placed with couples solely to bear children. Offred (Natasha Richardson) is one of these women, haunted by her past life and child.
19) Open range
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Boss Spearman, a rugged old-timer, free grazes cattle. He and Charley have been partners for ten years. The pair and their employees, Mose and Buttons, are driving their cattle across the West. Mose is attacked and thrown in jail during a visit to a town. The local cattle rancher, Baxter, wants the free grazers off his land and when Boss and Charley retrieve Mose, they are warned that they have until the next day to be out of the area. Charley confesses...
20) A Civil Action
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Jan Schlichtmann (Travolta) is a cynical, high-priced personal injury attorney who only takes big-money cases he can safely settle out of court. He takes on a case which at first appears straightforward, but soon becomes entangled in a labyrinthine legal battle involving industrial pollution, contaminated drinking water, and the deaths of innocent children in New England.
A high-priced personal injury attorney takes on a case that becomes an epic...